Utah - Another 1944 Normandy beach

Well we have described Dr Wooo, now we describe Utah, one of my favourites and popular "up West"

As is common with "West End dealers choice" games this one is based on Omaha. Ie play 2 from four in the hand plus 3 from 5 in the middle. 

Usual Omaha rules EXCEPT at any time when it is your bet you can turn 2 of your 4 cards over and half your bet. 

Just one change of rules, but you wouldn't believe what it does to the game. In my experience (and I don't know why as there is less unknowns, (not a game for Donald Rumsfeld then,) but may be after several pints of beer) the pots end up higher on Utah compared to Omaha poker.
There are little nuances, for example if you are going all in, turning two cards ( could well be the two you are not using) doubles the value of your bet if no one else shows. But on the flip side if you are last to play, Turing two, halves what you need to bet to see.

There are numerous "cousins and offspring" to this game ( more later) but for now we will leave this as a Stand alone game.

Finally, why Utah. Well when developing it I wanted something closely related to Omaha as is we developed from and still is very close to Omaha poker. Utah is another US state and was one of the Normandy beaches the us used on "D" day. So we still have Juno, Gold and sword for future games.

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